We talk about the law of inertia that the person is pushed back when he is sitting on a vehicle and the vehicle starts, I still cannot understand how the flying bugs or honeybees etc, are able to travel in the same direction and with the same speed of the bus or whichever vehicle it enters
2007-01-25 16:49:29 · 8 answers · asked by madan k 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The air in the bus is traveling at the same speed as the bus so it basically is not moving. Open all the windows and that fly wouldn't stand a chance.... Much like astronauts orbiting the earth at 17,000 miles per hour the same as their space ship so relative to the ship there is no motion...........
2007-01-25 16:59:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As long as the vehicle is moving at a constant speed, the bug will accelerate to that speed by being pushed by the air OR by landing on something in the bus.
However, if the bus accelerates or brakes suddenly, the bug will appear to be pushed in the same direction as the people in their seats.
The key is constant velocity vs. acceleration. Once something reaches a constant velocity, it keeps moving at that velocity until a force acts on it. Thus, once the bug accelerates to the constant speed of the vehicle, it will continue to move along with the bus until it acclerates or brakes (the force that changes the velocity).
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2007-01-25 17:18:13 · answer #2 · answered by almintaka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They move relative to the aitr current that carries them.
If the air is moving at 0 mph and they fly across a road, a car traveling toward them will be in a slip stream of air. The bug may be in that slip stream and move up the car as it comes toward them, then the air current slips them into the open window where the air slows down dramatically. They are still riding the air current as it slows in the car (relative to the insde of the car). If they leave the car, they catch another slip stream and get dragged along it and along the contour of the car until they stop.
THink of how a shrimp in the water would react as a submarine comes along. The shrimp would also follow the slipstream of the water as it moves with the passage of the boat. SImilar to air movement.
2007-01-25 17:01:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the bug flies in the window, it will be accelerated by the air in the car (which is moving at the car's speed) until it reaches that speed. The acceleration is slow enough that the bug ordinarily is not damaged (as it would be if it were to hit the windshield).
2007-01-25 17:05:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I has been properly defined by technique of many (and different cases and in different languages even in 3 hundred and sixty 5 days), ... yet what do those who answer NO mean? "Does it mean the mosquito is travelling at one hundred mph?" certain !!! what's the doubt? If we are travelling at that speed, the mass of air in the motor vehicle too, the mosquito is contained in the motor vehicle, then also IF: > we use an same gadget of reference for our speeds (motor vehicle @ 100mph, those interior also noted an same gadget); > evaluate the mosquito flying slowly and mantaining distance to the motor vehicle abode windows, seats and so on. (meaning, we overlook its ?speed to motor vehicle products and persons interior of); THEN the mosquito IS travelling at one hundred mph too. party: we are travelling from NYC to Wahington DC in a motor vehicle. there's a mosquito bugging interior. If the mosquito's widely used speed were 0 after arriving in Washington he might want to have stayed at lengthy island. Regards. . . outdoors/interior??? the speed is defined in connection with coordinates, in the adventure that they are an same for the motor vehicle and passengers we received't say the motor vehicle strikes and the passengers (insects protected) do not. lower back, if we bypass to a unique city in a motor vehicle in user-friendly words the motor vehicle travels and we stay at abode? If we bypass in yet another motor vehicle on an same speed, yet this different motor vehicle isn't ours, then on the grounds that we´re outdoors our motor vehicle we flow, yet when we are interior it no?? Ridiculous !!
2016-12-03 01:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by lesure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The air in the bus is being pushed forward at the same speed
the bus is moving.so the bug is being pushed also
2007-01-25 17:11:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
v experience this inertia bcoz our feet r with contact with the bus whereas bees and flies dont as they r not in contact with it .they fly in air.
2007-01-25 21:52:45 · answer #7 · answered by n 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT IS BECAUSE OF LESS WEIGHT.WHEN WE COMPARE WITH HUMAN AND OTHER ANIMALS ITS WEIGHT IS NEGLIGIBLE.SO IT CAN ...........
2007-01-26 00:26:14 · answer #8 · answered by S.S.KUMAR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋